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The Associated Press A man leaves a convenience store while wearing a required face mask in Houston. Although nearly a fifth of U.S. states don’t require people to wear masks to protect against COVID-19, some businesses are requiring employees and customers to be masked on their premises. AP photo NEW YORK — Although Texas no longer requires people to wear masks to protect against COVID-19, customers do need them to enter De J. Lozada’s store. “We cannot afford to take chances with the lives of my staffers. They’re young people and their parents have entrusted me with their care,...

NEW YORK — Although Texas no longer requires people to wear masks to protect against COVID-19, customers do need them to enter De J. Lozada’s store. “We cannot afford to take chances with the lives of my staffers. They’re young people and their parents have entrusted me with their care,” says Lozada, owner of Soul Popped Gourmet Popcorn, a shop located in Austin’s Barton Creek Square Mall. Lozada is also concerned about her 85-year-old father, who will return to his part-time job in the store this month. She has a staffer stationed at the door to her shop who will tell anyone with...

A-J Media A man who brandished an assault rifle at a Black Lives Matter protest in Lubbock has been sentenced to 46 months in federal prison. Emmanuel Quinones, a 25-year-old Lubbock man, was charged via criminal complaint in early June and indicted a week later following the incident at a Black Lives Matter protest May 30 at the Tim Cole Memorial in Lubbock. He pleaded guilty to interstate threatening communications in September and was sentenced on Tuesday by U.S. District Judge James Wesley Hendrix, according to Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Prerak Shah. “The ...

Although Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and his Mississippi counterpart Tate Reeves have announced the COVID-related mask mandates in their respective states are ...

Texas Failed Because It Did Not Plan Robinson Meyer © Tamir Kalifa / The New York Times / Getty Texas’s outage left millions of people, including Manessa Grady and her two sons, in the dark. How could this have happened? For four days, millions of people in Texas—the so-called energy capital of the world—shivered in the dark, unable to turn the lights on or run their heaters during some of the coldest days in decades. At least 30 Texans have died so far, including a 75-year-old man whose oxygen machine lost power and an 11-year-old boy who may have perished of hypothe...